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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Job shadow',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
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<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I understand how you feel about seeking help not always being cut and dried.
			In my current living situation, I can seek help if I can fit it into my schedule.
			In my former living situation though, I didn&apos;t have that luxury.
			I was trapped and alone, and there wasn&apos;t anything I could do about it.
			Seeing a doctor about the depression I had because of the situation was out of the question.
			I was just ... cut off from the world.
			Getting help isn&apos;t always feasible or even possible when you need it most.
		</p>
		<p>
			I&apos;m not sure how to help patients that don&apos;t want to be helped.
			One of the great things about being human is that we have the freedom not to change.
			What one person considers helping, another may consider hurting, and it&apos;s this difference of opinion that makes helping those that don&apos;t want help so hard.
			It goes both ways though.
			We can reject the type of false help that would be negative for our health.
			For example, there were once a pair of missionaries that tried to convince me I should stop being queer.
			Modern medicine tells us that not only is this an impossible task, but even <strong>*trying*</strong> is bad for one&apos;s mental health.
			Queers are queers, and that&apos;s how we have to stay.
			But anyway, the only way to help people with their illness beliefs is for them to want to be helped.
		</p>
		<p>
			I think the main reason people don&apos;t seek help with their illnesses is embarrassment.
			People feel helpless when they don&apos;t manage to face their problems alone.
			Humans have evolved to be a social species though.
			We&apos;re genetically programmed not to be able to handle things alone.
			There&apos;s a lot we can accomplish solo, but especially when it comes to matters of the mind, we fall apart when in solitude for too long.
			We&apos;re also a species of individual specialisation.
			We each choose a few things to get good at, then we turn to people who specialise in other things to hep us with our other types of problems.
			In turn, we offer help to people with problems in our areas of expertise.
			It&apos;s the natural way we function, but many people don&apos;t take that to heart.
			They&apos;re plenty willing to give help, but when it comes to getting help, it makes them feel weak.
			So they just keep trying not to need that help.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="shadow">
	<h2>Shadowing</h2>
	<p>
		One of our new coworkers was shadowing one of our more-experienced workers on one of the registers today.
		I ended up covering the experienced employee&apos;s break, so the newbie shadowed me for ten minutes.
		And wow, are they bad at shadowing.
		It was like they don&apos;t even understand the concept of shadowning.
		They kept trying to jump in whenever they thought I wasn&apos;t doing something right, and reach over to hit buttons on the touchscreen monitor.
		Everything they did, I had to undo, aside from one thing that they sort of got right.
		On that occasion, there were multiple orders in which things could be done, and they thought I was doing things in the wrong order, so I explained that either way works, and that on our old system, the order I still use today was the only efficient way.
		They thought I needed to tell the machine I was going to read a credit card before inserting the card&apos;s chip.
		The old system halted for a couple minutes, slowing down the transaction, if you told it you were going to read a card before inserting the chip.
		The new system is forgiving though, at least in that regard, and will read the chip just as quickly whether you insert it before or after telling the system a card will be used for the payment.
	</p>
	<p>
		Seriously though, how hard is it to shadow?
		If it doesn&apos;t look like they&apos;re struggling, why try to &quot;correct&quot; the person you&apos;re shadowing?
		The fact that the boss is having you watch what you&apos;re doing so you can learn should tell you that they probably know what they&apos;re doing a lot better than you do.
		Especially when you&apos;re the new recruit and know you don&apos;t have much experience yet.
	</p>
</section>
END
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